Can't load native shared library with dependencies in a native activity app

Question

In my Android app I have 4 libraries:

libTemplate.so
   depends on libPorkholt.so
libPorkholt.so
   depends on libpng15.so
   depends on liblua.so
   depends         


        

Answer 1

I don't think Android will automatically load libraries other than the ones specified in the manifest, so you should create a "dummy" Java class to load external dependencies, it should contain:

static {
    System.loadLibrary("openal");
    System.loadLibrary("lua");
    System.loadLibrary("png15");
    System.loadLibrary("Porkholt");
    System.loadLibrary("Template");
}

Since this section is static, it will be executed when the class is loaded, even if its methods aren't called.